Anyways, if anyone is trying to use an external sound card as default (disabling the internal audio) and there is no retrovol mixer, or it has disappeared, I discovered that you have to make a text file with the following code in it:

Code:

Config file for retrovol
# This file should reside in the user's home directory and be named .retrovolrc

# Which soundcard to use
#card=hw:0

# Set this to 1 to make the sliders vertical, or 0 for horizontal (only applies to the main window)
#vertical=0

# Which slider to link with the tray_icon, identified by numid
#tray_control=37
tray_control=2

# The numids of the sliders to display, in order. It is okay to have comments
# after the numbers as long as the numbers are the first non-whitespace
# characters. To get a list of the slider numids, run this command:
# amixer controls
# NOTE: This section must go at the end of the file!

retrovol has/had a bug if the soundcard referenced by hw:<card_number> isn't recognized it crashes (disappears).

Manually editing the card line in the rc file and restarting can help. (but can be a pain if multiple soundcards initialize in different orders - hence giving a different number)

~/.retrovolrc

Code:

# Which soundcard to use
#card=hw:0

I've been using a Presonus AudioBox-USB, ALSA can not set the volume for this device - so retrovol just crashes. The volume is controlled manually on the box, or by the software level rather than the sound system level.

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